This book The Long Hard Road to Enlightenment is about our individual and collective struggle to end our suffering and find true enlightenment and happiness. This book is about our evolutionary struggle to gain the best possible context or perspective, that when found, gives meaning and makes sense out of the content of our lives. This journey is not just intrinsic to earth humanity, but to all life across all time and space. The struggle is long and hard, even brutal in the beginning, and this may not be what you or I want to hear, but it's what we need to know. The path will not become easy and light until we realize life is a virtual school and have learned the hard lessons being presented to us moment to moment, day by day and year by year. Only when the hard lessons are behind us, can we truly reach out to those below us and up to those above us, ascending together the stairway to heaven.